When he was a few weeks old, the blanket fell off the pram. Even though the person walking the pram returned very soon to look for the blanket, somebody had already taken it :( So, I decided to make a new one. This one is the same colour but a bit heavier wool, with autumn and winter coming.
I wanted a square I hadn't made before. By googling images for 'crochet square' I found this square: https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5129/5731174379_fb58b11a23_z.jpg. Later in a Facebook group someone told me that there is a free pattern on Ravelry for a very similar square. It includes a chart of the stitches, so I'm not drawing a chart of the square here. My square is not exactly the same, I made it on the basis of the photo in the first link.
The square is 12 x 12 cm (4 and 3/4 in square) The center is always white and the last row is turqoise, otherwise the colours vary.
My daughter wanted something in between each square in white. I showed her a few different ways of joining squares and she chose this:
It is 2 chain stitches and attached so that I skip 2 stitches, alternating between the squares to be attached.
I first made strips of 4 squares and then attached the strips together.
I have been making the blanket in a number of different places. Here it is in Rowallane Gardens near Belfast, Northern Ireland:
And here in the Samppalinna park in Turku. It was 30°C on the day I took that photo, so the woollen blanket felt quite warm!
And here the finished blanket:
I wonder what happened to the first blanket for baby Daniel. Does the present owner know where it came from?
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